Resident Evil 2 PC review - a bloodbath to relish
Roll up, roll up, welcome to the circus! Inside you'll find a man whose legs have been eaten clean off, key and door systems based on chess pieces, and a mutant gator the size of a truck that chases you through the sewers. Fancy playing hide-and-seek with a child abductor and serial killer? Come right in!
It's not hard to make Resident Evil 2 sound absolutely ridiculous. This is a game that encourages you to shove a grenade into a zombie's mouth and watch as its head explodes, sending wet gore flying through the air. Going back through each location is a chance to admire your handiwork: galleries of splatter, blood and brains decorating the walls, burst bodies turned into Pollock paintings. Try not to clap and cheer when cruelly dunking a zombie head-first into its own slippery insides - it's sick and I love it.
Capcom has turned maiming zombies into an artform. Shoot a cheek and it will pop with sticky viscera like an overgrown zit. Hands and forearms can be obliterated with a single bullet, or you can create zombie dominoes with a gunshot to the knee. As the undead rarely stay down for good it's in your best interests to preserve ammo, but like a kid at a waterpark, it's hard to resist splashing around in all the gunk.
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